Product Development
Product Owner Talks: Google and SEO Best Practices
These days a landing page is a must-have for effective business growth. It describes your product or service, benefits for potential users, and articulates your goals. It is where a customer comes clicking on the ad or performing a search. And most importantly, a well-thought-out page can easily become the primary sales tool or literally revenue generator. Being a product manager and working with …
How to Write Good Software Requirements Specification for Your Mobile Application
Considering custom mobile app development services, you probably stumble upon the term ‘software or mobile app requirements document’ too often. For experienced technology companies like Dashdevs, this type of technical writing can be par for the course. However, if you aren’t involved in software engineering, mobile app requirements gathering and structuring can be confusing, …
Dashdevs Year in Review: The Biggest Achievements and Brightest Moments from 2019
Snow is all over the streets, Christmas lights and New Year trees are shining across the city, making this time of the year so very special. Traditionally, in late December, I analyze the past 12 months to evaluate the results that Dashdevs — fintech consulting and outsourcing company — has achieved. If I try to compare Dashdevs three years ago and now, it would be almost two different businesses. …
The Internet of Payments and Benefits of IoT in Financial Services
From smart speakers, wearables, and refrigerators to self-driving cars, connected homes, and smart cities — internet connectivity continually pushes back the limits and wins new markets. It can be reasonably called the next stage of the digital revolution, and it is expected to transform our lives significantly. Gartner foresees that there will be over 25 billion Internet of Things solutions in …
The Biggest Problems of Loyalty Programs
The digital loyalty program has become an essential part of the digital ecosystem of modern brands. A brand’s loyal audience regularly uses its application, interacts with its products, and even considers this brand a very close friend. In other words, they become ambassadors of the product and spread its mission around to others. The value of a brand grows in stride with the number of loyal …
FitGrid App — Balanced Fitness Solution for All Parties
It is no surprise that fitness and sport are so popular. Physical activity is natural for people. People are looking for two things to feed their soul. These things are inspiration and connection. In a technological society, sport meets many personal intentions. For example, to look physically attractive, stay healthy, and fit, establish your mind and body connection. Fitness is not only about …
Designing Invite Codes
Have you ever googled “Uber invite codes”? There will be thousands of results with suggestions on how to use this invite codes, how to receive extra bonuses, how to ride for free forever. There are even YouTube how-to videos about it. These invite codes help Uber to become popular. People are searching for these codes on forums, asking friends, trying to brute-force it. In other words, people are …
Logical Design for Effective App Development
It is not another design article. It is just a confession about my pain. My personal belief is that everything in the design must be logical. No matter if you create the UI for the application or you are designing a chair. Designers need to understand that good design is not the one which hits the eye with colors, textures, or sizes. The best design is one that makes users’ life easier.
Banking App Authorization: Brand-New Approach
We all live in a digitized world. We use dozens of different applications daily. Messaging apps, sport tracking apps, apps to manage daily tasks, audio and/or video providers, banking apps, and others. When downloading an application from the App Store or Google Play, to start using the app, we usually need to register. During the registration process (signing up), we enter our identification data …
What Digital Product Startups Are Recklessly Missing
The moment an idea sneaks in the startuppers’ head, it occupies every free space it can. One doesn’t want to evaluate it. One just wants to deliver it on. The entrepreneurs who are led by such a vision are great. They can find thousands of ways to release it. Sometimes it seems like they are out of this world. They don’t see any blockers, only a target. You might have experienced such inspiration …
Crypto messengers: Effective Mix of Privacy and Add Values
Time is fleeting. It seems like yesterday to make a transaction or receive the money we had to go to the banks, stand in queues, experience technical issues which caused a delay in the whole process. And we can not omit the human factor -the incorrectly filled bank form. Missing data. Problems with requests processing due to the large volumes of data. Or incorrect structuring of huge data arrays. …
NLP in Product Development
Despite widespread misconceptions, Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) is not only about communication and manipulations. And definitely not about the picks-up and sexual seduction. Never mind the Internet which is full of such articles and interpretations of NLP. NLP as a system was born in the 1970s. Richard Bandler and John Grinder wanted to know how people can become professionals in an unknown …
How to Implement Neural Network in iOS App
Machine learning is one of the top topics popular online. There appear more and more articles, discussions and examples of implementation of ML in solutions addressing real tasks in the media. Among implementation options, the highlight is on the feasibility of using machine learning models in mobile development. Being a Junior mobile developer, I wanted to become involved and figure out how …
Product Mindset is the Key to the Success
Outsourcing is a rather popular approach for the software industry. Companies start to use it because they want to solve some internal issues. They want to reduce the cost, increase the speed of producing, and use intellectual property. Every outsourcing company has its own approach to project management. Most of them have project managers or scrum masters on the board. These positions are …
Designers and developers collaboration for application benefits
What is the difference between a designer and an artist? What is the primary goal of design? How can you recognize outstanding design? My mind is getting around the answers to these questions. I am passionate about the design in all its appearances. Everything like the graphic, industrial, interior, and product design excite the imagination. Art and design are close terms. They are so close that …
Dunning-Kruger Effect on Startups
“Startup” has become a usual word for us. Everybody knows what it means, but this word had no official definition for a long period of time. Commonly when we talk about a startup, we often think about a young company with innovative ideas and the will to scale. In most of cases, such companies have a few investors ready to help them to grow up. Angel investors always chase the future “unicorn” — a …
Product owner talks: Creating My Budgeting App
My very first budgeting tool was MS Excel. It was a really convenient solution 12 years ago. I created my budget items and planned my expenses per month. Every evening I put some numbers in this document. These actions helped me to understand my expending performance. Using this information, I could improve it and save money for my big goals. Basically, with that spreadsheet, I started to …
Design Checklist for the Perfect Charts: from Designer to Developer
Many applications use charts to simplify the perception of numeric information for a user. It is a straightforward and user-friendly solution. Nowadays we can not imagine any monitoring, health or trade application without this graphic element. Designers adore charts too. There is so much space for creativity and self-expression when using these visual elements. So many different kinds of …